Tag: Melissa Stoller

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first “Pitch It to Me” Challenge! I am excited to bring this interactive learning adventure to our Wonder of Words blog. It’s intended to be fun and engaging, show how creative we can be with our story pitches, and support the hard-working and WONDERful members or our writing community.

Here’s a recap of how it works. I pick one lucky writer’s picture book pitch for the post. I write another for the same story, and have a guest write a third. YOU get to vote on your favorite. The winner gets bragging rights, and the writer ends up with three pitch ideas, feedback, and a complimentary critique of the story.

To start us off, Kari Gonzalez pitches her picture book manuscript, PRINCESS PARTY NINJA. Our guest challenger is author Melissa Stoller. You can learn more about each of these ladies and their work below.

You have two weeks to vote on your favorite pitch. They are in no particular order. Please only vote once, but feel free to tell your friends about us and get them in on the action. Let the challenge begin!

Kari is a published poet, but she is most enthralled with her new-found love of writing funny and witty picture book escapades. Her first draft writing process is fast and furious to get stories out of her head, which of course makes room for more! Her three cats are kind enough to share their home with Kari, her husband, and their two little girls.

Melissa Stoller is the author of the chapter book series The Enchanted Snow Globe Collection – Book One: Return to Coney Island and Book Two:The Liberty Bell Train Ride (Clear Fork Publishing, 2017 and 2019); and the picture books Scarlet’s Magic Paintbrush and Ready, Set, GOrilla! (Clear Fork, Fall 2018). She is also the co-author of The Parent-Child Book Club: Connecting With Your Kids Through Reading (HorizonLine Publishing, 2009). Melissa is an Assistant for the Children’s Book Academy, a Regional Ambassador for The Chapter Book Challenge, an Admin for The Debut Picture Book Study Group, and a volunteer with SCBWI/MetroNY. Melissa has worked as a lawyer, legal writing instructor, freelance writer and editor, and early childhood educator. Melissa lives in New York City with her husband, three daughters, and one puppy. When not writing, she can be found exploring NYC with family and friends, traveling, and adding treasures to her collections.

Thank you to Kari and Melissa for participating in the first Pitch It to Me challenge. If you would like to be part of the next challenge, please contact me per the instructions found here. I will see you all again for “Pitch It to Me” on December 15, 2018!